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by | October 20, 2026 · 11:55 am

America’s First Drive-In Started with a Pork Sandwich in Oak Cliff

Somewhere around 1921, on the southwest corner of Fort Worth Pike and Chalk Hill Road in West Oak Cliff, Jesse G. Kirby started carrying pork sandwiches out to people sitting in their cars.

That corner sat past the edge of Dallas back then. Fort Worth Pike is Davis Street now. Most histories put the opening in September 1921, though court records from a lawsuit a few years later list April 15, 1922. Nobody involved seems to have thought they were making history, so nobody wrote the date down carefully.

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by | March 4, 2021 · 11:45 am

Keller’s Drive-In Still Hopping After 69 Years

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Keller’s Drive-In has been a Dallas staple since 1950 when Jack Keller opened his first drive-in in Dallas. Having worked at the original drive-in which was located on Chalk Hill off the DFW Turnpike, the Pig Stand, Keller ventured out to open his own restaurant replete with snazzy carhops, cold beer, and tasty burgers.  Continue reading →

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by | July 11, 2015 · 2:14 pm

Oak Cliff’s “The Pig Stand” Changed The Way Americans Dine

Pig_Stand_Drive_In_Hollywoodby Steven Doyle

The pig is so much more than bacon. From the lowly swine we have experienced much in the way of restaurant innovation; innovation that started right here in Dallas. Texas. In October of 1921 Jessie Kirby built hi very first of what would soon be a successful string of drive-in’s called The Pig Stand. The success of the idea surrounded with the notion that people were just too lazy to get out of their cars. Kirby brought the lazy drivers to his stand and were met by very young teenage boys decked out in white shorts and black bow ties who earned the title ‘carhops’ because they would jump on the running boards of cars often as soon as they hit the parking lot.    Continue reading →

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